"But if Not" delivered at Ebenezer Baptist in 1967. I first heard it sitting in my car for "a minute" that turned into the entire length of the sermon. I had just talked myself out of taking a public stand on something "black" because I 'didn't want to air our dirty laundry'. But this speech so shamed me...I can't even describe how it affected me.  My spine straightens whenever I even think of it.